John

November 15, 2009

12-21-2012

Filed under: Uncategorized — John @ 1:12 am

Apparently the Mayan’s needed bigger stones to write their calendars on.

This movie is incredibly… daft? We start with neutrinos that “mutate” into microwaves.

Now setting aside the whole business from Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, matter doesn’t usually spontaneously convert itself into energy. and if it did.

ok. so a Neutrino has appx worth of mass. This is a hugely small amount of energy. It is joules (or Watt/Seconds) ONLY when it is annihilated with an equally massive anti-neutrino. Your average microwave produces energy on the order of neutrino’s worth of energy per second. The number of solar neutrinos is per second per square centimeter of earth that FACES THE SUN! Not per Cubic centimeter of mass. Even doubled, or quintupled that is still only . Even assuming that each and every neutrino released all of its energy in an anhilistic destruction within the earth, this would release calories worth of energy per second or 1.638 calories per year. Compare this to the calories of energy consumed by humans on the surface of the earth in 2008 and you can see that the entire premise of this movie is laughable.

Furthermore, if something is going to heat up water, it’s going to heat up water everywhere. People would have boiled in their skin way before the earth got “hurt”.

Overall though, I enjoy the movie. Well, up until they got stupid and sentimental and “oh look how great humanity is” at the end when they were reopening the gates. Yeah, that was stupid. SIX BILLION people are already dead and you’re risking the survival of the species for a couple hundred?

sorry bollywood, I’dve let them drown while drinking champagne.

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